Improved chair



UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JAMESA. HOUSE AND HENRY A. HOUSE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED CHAIR.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that We, JAMES A. HOUSE and HENRY A. HoUsE, of Bridgeport,Fairfield county, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new andImproved Spring and Stop-Reel 5 and We hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, making a part of' this specification, and theletters of reference marked thereon, in which the same letter representsthe same thing in each figure.

Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective of the reel attached to ababy-tender chair; Fig. 2, an oblique projection, showing the stop,spring, and grooved journal; Fig.' 3, the grooved journal.

A is the back of the chair; D, the stop-bolt; F, the case; O, thedovetailed slotted grooved journal; P, the outside cap of reel E; R, thenotched reel; S, the spring; T, the cords 3 X, the spring to'actuatestop-bolt D.

The object of our invention is to readily se cure in position adjustablebacks of chairs, and is shown as applied to the back of a baby-v tenderchair.

Supporting-cords T are wound about reel R and secured thereto. Coledspring S is secured to grooved journal O at one end and reel R at theother. Stop-bolt D, being lifted out of any notch it may bein on reel R,raises spring X, and the back of the chair being depressed the cord isdrawn 0E reel R, which revolves in journal O and winds up spring S, whenthe proper pointof depressionis reached releasing bolt D. Spring Xforces it into one of the notches of reel R, and secures the back inposit-ion by preventing the cords from unreeling. When elevating theback, spring S, being released by the raising of bolt D, unwinds andrewinds the slack of cords T upon reel R.

Journal O is constructed with a dovetailed slot, into which one end ofspring S, being The combination of reel R, bolt D, spring X, and cordsT, operating together Asubstantially as and for the purposes specified.

JAS. A. HOUSE. HENRY A. HOUSE.

Witnesses:

S. S. DrMoND, GEO. G. B IsHoP.

